Eggs are everywhere this time of year, and their importance to our society is priceless, J.P. Devine writes.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Reporting Aside: Move along, April, you fickle month
As Robert Frost penned in his poem “Two Tramps in Mud Time,” April has a habit of taking us a step into summer and then two back into winter, Amy Calder writes.
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Something for everyone in newest ‘Great Expectations,’ writes J.P. Devine
I was taken, in my New York days, by a girl named Estella, who insisted that I read Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations,” because she was named after the character in the novel. I didn’t get very far with the book or Estella, and abandoned both. Make of that what you will. I just finished three […]
Posted inColumns, Liz Soares
Thinking Things Through: Smaller is better when it comes to ice cream cones
Marking special occasions at ice cream stands, Liz Soares has been in sticky situations when given plus-size scoops in puny cones.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine
On the Edge: Is everything all right?
You’re probably wondering what these ‘Golden Years’ are, and when they’re coming, because whatever this ‘all right’ we’re living in now isn’t ‘all right’ at all, J.P. Devine writes.
Posted inAmy Calder, Morning Sentinel
Reporting Aside: Woman’s actions draw ire of online commentators, but family says there’s more to the story
Nichole Nalley-Dickey says her brother’s wife, Rebecca Mceachern-Gorman, was suffering from brain damage when she crashed her car into a pole on Main Street in Waterville last week, Amy Calder writes.
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TV Review: I Spy A Spy ‘A Spy Among Friends’ writes JP Devine
I remember this story because I’m old. If you’re older than 60, you will as well, but at the time, here in America, you probably didn’t care. It was 1963, and the assassination of JFK was enough to deal with, and no one here even knew the rest of the world existed or cared. But […]
Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde
Backyard Naturalist: Auroras in spring
Auroras have fascinating scientific explanation but offer the feeling of stupendous transparent beauty that touches the northern sky of your soul, Dana Wilde writes.